The Scoop on Withdrawals
Submitters tell us why they didn’t withdraw a piece accepted elsewhere.
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Interview with Jerald Walker, Literary Nonfiction Guest Editor
Associate Editor Taylor Byas interviews our Literary Nonfiction Guest Editor Jerald Walker.
Pop-Up Literary Nonfiction Submission Period!
We’re accepting (free) print-mag literary nonfiction submissions now through March 7!
Last Call: Reading Period Ends 3/1!
Submissions will close March 1st! Be sure to submit.
The Short of It
What makes a great short poem, and why are they so challenging?
Notes for the Early Birds
We’re open again for (free) submissions for the print journal and for our miCRo series! Read our guidelines here, and hit us with your best shot, as Pat Benatar would say. If you submitted between last September and March, the 2017–18 reading period, and haven’t heard back from us yet, the good news is that …
We want your work! Our submission period ends today!
Here at The Cincinnati Review, we’re approaching the end of our submission period, so we’re eager to share a final reminder with you. The deadline by which you can submit work for the journal is today: Thursday, March 1 (by 11:59 Eastern time). Time is running out, and we’re itching to get our hands on …
We Want Your Literary Nonfiction!
“I’d like to see The Cincinnati Review become one of the leading journals in the country to publish edgy, innovative, truly groundbreaking literary nonfiction.” These are the words of our Literary Nonfiction Editor Kristen Iversen, whose ambitious editorial mission guides our reading process here at The Cincinnati Review. We’ve been expanding our focus …
Submission Trends: Flotsam and Imago
Associate Editor James Ellenberger: For the past month I’ve been reading poetry submissions for the Robert and Adele Schiff Awards here at The Cincinnati Review. There have been some interesting patterns so far, particularly on the level of shared terminology. It isn’t unusual to read multiple poems in a single sitting about the same topic—the …
Submission Period Closing Soon!!! Special Call for Nonfiction
Just a quick reminder that our Submission Period will close on March 15th (at 11:59pm, EST – to be technical). Due to trends discussed recently by our esteemed Senior Associate Editor Matt O’Keefe, we especially welcome literary nonfiction submissions. So if you’ve got a lyric essay, travel narrative about your last trip to Mongolia, flash-style memoir, personal essay told …